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May 18, 2012 | 4:03 PM

Local school administrators in two separate districts are now investigating whether strict rules designed to keep statewide standardized testing secure were breeched at two Indiana schools, StateImpact confirmed Friday.

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Hammond High School Principal Leslie Yanders on Wednesday confirmed three teachers were suspended with pay while the district investigates an alleged breach of security in the end-of-course assessments at the high school.

Last week, a teacher was reportedly angry about a writing prompt, or question, which she called “culturally biased.” She shared it with two other teachers by email, and one of those two teachers reviewed the question with his class and reportedly presented it as an assignment to his students last week.

The Indy Star reports district officials are keeping mum about an alleged breech at North Central High School:

In this case, someone reported to the state agency a possible breach in connection with North Central’s administering of an end-of-year assessment that high school students must pass before graduating…

A district spokeswoman said school officials are releasing few details.

“We were notified by the DOE that there had been a possible test breach at North Central High School with the end-of-year exams,” said Ellen Rogers, the spokeswoman. “We are cooperating with the DOE currently on investigating that situation.”

On Friday, IDOE spokesperson Stephanie Sample told StateImpact she thinks it would be hard for a breech in testing security to be chalked up to an innocent, honest mistake:

“The protocol is pretty clearly spelled out to the test coordinators in each school building. There’s a script you have to read, a clear list of ‘do’s-and-don’ts,’” she said. “There’s really no reason for anything like this to happen.”

Anybody know more about what happened in either case? Post it in our comments section or e-mail at indiana@stateimpact.org.